The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-10-06
FROM MURPHEy TO MANTEO.
SOME THINGS THAT ATAREHAPPEx.
ING IN NORTH CAROLINA.

What Has Happened in the Good Old
state Since the Chronicle Last Greeted
Its Readers.
POSTAL CARD NEWs.-The friends of the
CHRONICLE in every section of the State
are requested to aid US in making this de
partment an accurate record, in brief, OF
the news from Murphy to Manteo. Send
US postal card whenever anything OF
publlc interest transpires in your neigh
borhood or section of country. You will
aid US and give prominence to your sec
ton. Send on the postal cards. = EDITOR
49,. Beef sells at Yadkinville at from
3 to 4c. net.
Joe Caldwell is not happy. Cause
'Ihere has not been circus in the State
this season"
IA company will shortly begin the
manufacture of buckets, barrels ETC., at
Morganton.
Mr.. J. H. Benton has leased the
Fayetteville News to Mr.. J. S. Hall for
one year.
-. The Forsyth Rif1emen have bought
lot in Winston and will erect commo-
dlous armory.
Two men had their hands fearfully
injured in Wilson county last week by gins,
says the Advance
-. Rutherfordton has voted for the is
suing of bonds to the amount of So. 900
for street improvements.
-. The Gold Leaf says that Mr. w. A.
Wilson. Of Virginia, will shortly open a
male school in Henderson.
-. There are twenty five young men
studying for the ministry at Wake Forest.
This is good and encouraging sign.
A nice, new academy building is to
be erected at Carthage, Moore county, for
Messrs. Shields q Coles successful school.
Let the good work go on.
-. Mr. G. Rosenthal, of Raleigh, has
raised and sent to Swepsonville Baptist
Church eighty dollars. 1t will help to com
plete the church and building.
=. The Marion Bugle says that in Nc
Dowell county, one day last week, a cou-
pie married in the afternoon and landed
in the county poorhouse before night.
The cane mill is getting in its fatal
work. A little son of Mrs Elizabeth Hall, j.,
of the vicinity Of Dallas, CASTOR county,
was crushed to death in one last week.
lStatesyille Landmark.
-. Advise all your farmer boys to stick
to North Carolina for she is the grandest
old State of all of them u Extract from
letter from former North Carolinian,
now living in Florida.
-. Mr.. II. B. Hardy, of the CHRoNI-
Gle staff, attended Alamance court last
week. He reports that the farmers are
in good spirits, having the finest crop of
tobacco ever raised in the county.
"a leather medal has been presented
to w. D. Bryan, champion dog killer, Tar
boro, n C. 1887" The Tarboro South
erner says as work Of art it ranks with
the auriferic ones of Tiffany's.
-. The Free Press says that the A &
n. G. r. R. has put down the freight on
cotton from kinston to Norfolk to so
cents bale. The former rate was 81. So
This gives Kinston big advantage.
...Webster Station, jackson county, is
four years old and has population of one
hundred. During its existence, writes Col.
Jno. D. Cameron, there has not been a
death. He thinks this is without parallel.
-. Capt. Nat Atkinson, of Buncombe,
sent display Of fine Buncombe grass
es to the Pennsylvania State Fair. He
received the first premium for the exhibit.
He will send the display to the Atlanta
Exposition.
IA firm from Philadelphia, practi-
cal manufacturers, have leased the build
ing engine and machinery belonging to
Mr.. 2. B. Britain for the purpose of start
ing a shuttle mandatory at this place.
-Morganton Star.
49,. AT Hertford, on Monday, we were
We're shown a cotton stalk containing S6
fully developed bolls, grown by Mr.. W.
l.. Rosworth at Haryeys Neck. He told
us it was sample of his 10 acre CROP
E. City Carolinian.
49,. The editor Of the Statesvile Land
mark IS seen a stalk of corn in Iredell
county 6 feet in length 1t grew two ears
of corn, a large and a small one, and
from the ground to the second ear was a
distance of 10 feet.
-. The Enterprise says there has not
been a single death Of a white adult in
High Point since July, 1886, about IA
months, and that there have been only
three deaths there of persons between the
ages of Is and 40 III four years.
- The Goldsboro Argus says that a
civil service examination will be held in
that city October 9th, beginning at 8
O'Clock The CHRONICLE advises all young
men who desire place in the Government
service to stand the examination.
- Mr.. Clarence E. Frck, of the Shelby
New Era, was at the Central Hotel yeSter-
day, and from him we learn that the fight
between the Carolina Central and the three
Cs road is at an end, the hatchet being
buried by mutual consent.-Charlotte
Chronicle.
:. The Catawba Industrial Association
will hold its annual fair at Hickory, Oct.
25th to 2Sth, inclusive. Senator Vance
will tell what he don't know about farm
ing, on the Goth; Governor Scales will adj
dress the people on the 27th, and Col. l..
L. Polk will speak on the 2Sth.
Mr.. S. W. Reid told a Charlotte
Chronicle reporter that not an empty mo
lasses barrel can be found in town. The
farmers have bought up all of them fol
sorghum One dealer in Charlotte states
that he could have sold 1, 900 empty bar
rels if he had only had them in stock.
President Cleveland will reach
Asheyile at 10 a. NJ. October 21st. HI
will be driven through the city, the hospi
talties formally extended, and he viii
board the train after driving to the Swan
nanoa junction. Only fifteen minutes will
be spent in Asheville.
Cumberland Fair is going to be ;
big success this year. In addition to the
many other attractions, Senator Vance
has accepted an invitation to make an ad
dress. OF itself. this will carry thousands
| to the fair. The CHRONICLE congratulate
the dwellers on tae Cape Fear.
| The Morganton Star SAYS that th